Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS5 on 22 December 2016 at 06:10 involving a Toyota Auris
Five vehicles, including a Toyota Auris and a Toyota Avensis, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bristol at 06:10 on Thursday 22 December 2016. The 31-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris and the 37-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 06:10
- Vehicles
- 5
- Toyota Auris and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45871, longitude -2.54194, in the BS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the St George Central, Bristol, BS5 7HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016521700025
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 22 September 1981
9 m awayRef 198152CGE1743
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 23 July 1992
18 m awayRef 19925292F1617
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 6 January 1993
27 m awayRef 19935293F5023
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 18 August 2023
62 m awayRef 2023522400038
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 13 September 1995
63 m awayRef 19955295F2644
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 20 February 2023
63 m awayRef 2023522300677
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 5: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2016521700025 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2016.